WORK FLOW AND FINISHING FOR PRINT PRODUCTION OF PHOTOGRAPH IMAGES

摘要

Providing for workflow and finishing solutions for printing are disclosed herein. By way of example, disclosed workflow provides grouping and managing a stream(s) of digital images across a substrate width, for maximizing print productivity and profitability. Digital images are re-sized according to print instructions and oriented into a print stream. Multiple print streams can be organized onto the substrate width, to improve substrate packing. Moreover, disclosed finishing solutions provide for outputting streams of prints according to an output format, in conjunction with rendering the digital images in physical form.

主权项

1. A system for processing print orders, the system comprising:
a formatting component to convert digital images from received print requests into a bitmap format; a rendering engine to selectively arrange and re-size the digital images according to a print instruction; and a layout engine to position the digital images into a plurality of parallel print streams, the plurality of parallel print streams to print side-by-side across a width of a print media, such that different print jobs are printed simultaneously in parallel print streams; wherein the print streams have a common width and different print streams contain printed images of different lengths.